Newcastle skills event starts
As a year of the Designs of the Time programme draws to an end, Dott 07 and Norhumbria University School of Design today kick off a conference on design practice.
Intersections 07: Design Know-how for a New Era aims to engage the global design community in a discussion of the skills required for future design practices.
The conference supports other work the Design Council is doing as part of a comprehensive review of skills and education. A report to the UK Government, which will soon be published in partnership with Creative & Cultural Skills, will make a number of recommendations of ways to improve the design industry’s capabilities.
Northumbria University alumnus Tim Brown, also chief executive of Ideo, will open the first day with a keynote on the challenges of design thinking.
The conference takes place at the Baltic, Newcastle upon Tyne, on 25-26 October.
Dott 07’s festival showcase, designed by Xsite Architecture, can be visited between 10am and 6pm daily until 28 October. See www.dott07.com for further information.
The Baltic is in Gateshead not Newcastle